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Simplify your dev jobs!

impulsar is a tool, written in Go, to run tasks in your shell. It is a easy to use tool that can help you to automate your daily tasks.

Features

  • Simple: impulsar has a simple but powerful YAML based configuration file.
  • Easy to use: Start one or more tasks (called jobs) with a single command.
  • Job dependencies: You can define dependencies between jobs.
  • Foreach: Run jobs with different sets of EnvVars in a foreach like loop.
  • Go templating: Use Go templating to preprocess your scripts.

Quickstart

Download

Download the latest release, that meets your platform, from the releases page and extract it to a directory in your PATH.

Create a configuration file

Create a file named impulsar.yml with the following content: 

hello:
  script:
    - echo "Hello from impulsar!"

Run impulsar

Run impulsar with the following command: 

impulsar hello
hello is the name of the job defined in the configuration file.